Speaker 1: Hey guys, we are back from the bye and getting
Speaker 1: you all called up and recapped on the season thus far.
Speaker 1: Fourth and one, Cam Newton steak to the right, can't
Speaker 1: pick it up review No good rain now and then
Speaker 1: we are previewing the big game coming up in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area with the leader of the NFC. It just
Speaker 1: seems like there's some positive momentum here. For Caroline, I'm
Speaker 1: going into what we all will admit is the toughest
Speaker 1: game they've got so far, but it does seem like
Speaker 1: they're well positioned for us. We have all of that
Speaker 1: and much more on this week's the group chat. You've
Speaker 1: been added to the group chat with your friends Caroline,
Speaker 1: can Max Sensen, and Will Brian. All Right, groupies, we
Speaker 1: are back from our relaxing, exciting Bill and the Blink.
Speaker 1: How would you describe your bye week? Boys? Relaxing is
Speaker 1: a good word. I would use that word well because
Speaker 1: yours relaxed. Yours a little more strenuous. Yeah, was a
Speaker 1: little more energetic. I you know, I had to um
Speaker 1: to work off some of those London pounds. But yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Oh gosh, mine was relaxing. Um a bit,
Speaker 1: a bit full of activities, so I'm I'm a little
Speaker 1: under the weather. If you can't tell. I feel like
Speaker 1: this happens every single year when we slow down, you know,
Speaker 1: we're go, go, go, go go. And then I took
Speaker 1: two days of just laying around and my body was
Speaker 1: like cool, yeah, let's get sick. So I'm a little
Speaker 1: let's get sick. So I'm a little bit under the weather.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. That's why I sound a little nasally
Speaker 1: out there for all of you who are listening. But
Speaker 1: we're back, and it's crazy that we are to the
Speaker 1: halfway point in this season. It always flies by. If
Speaker 1: we count the preseason and all of that, we are
Speaker 1: past halfway. But we are to the halfway point of
Speaker 1: the regular season, heading out to send Francisco, the undefeated
Speaker 1: team in the NFL one of them. Anyways, someone's gotta
Speaker 1: beat him. I say, why not the Panthers. But before
Speaker 1: we get there, we're going to do a little recap
Speaker 1: to just get everyone up to speed because we took
Speaker 1: this week off. Monday was the most Monday of Mondays
Speaker 1: as we got back into the rhythm of this whole
Speaker 1: season thing like Monday too, didn't it. Yeah, this whole
Speaker 1: week is just maybe by Thursday Mondays this week and
Speaker 1: the rain raining. You know, we taped this on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and if you're in the Charlotte area, it's just gross
Speaker 1: outside today. So we're going to do a recap though,
Speaker 1: to get us up to speed to where we are
Speaker 1: currently in the season. So we we're going to do
Speaker 1: our best, maybe dramatic readings. I believe Will has some
Speaker 1: dramatics for us. I'm gonna try this is. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. I believe, I believe in you for this.
Speaker 1: So the way that we split this up was we
Speaker 1: each took two games, and Will, just being Will, he
Speaker 1: took the O and two start. We we were gonna
Speaker 1: draw straws for this, but Will more or less volunteered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, I got the ones that built character. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so one way of putting it, Yeah, that's been you
Speaker 1: can't you can't go four and two without starting, oh
Speaker 1: and two. You can't have a four game winning streak
Speaker 1: and be the comeback kids. You're right without starting, You're
Speaker 1: you're so right. So, without further ado, this is the
Speaker 1: season in sixty seconds or so, because we don't really
Speaker 1: time this out. So will Europe on the banks of
Speaker 1: the Cataba River in the Queen City. It was a
Speaker 1: hot day in Charlotte with the defending NFC champion Rams
Speaker 1: coming to town. Wow, that was quite an intial. We're
Speaker 1: already got like thirty seconds left. Panthers get the ball
Speaker 1: opening drive fumba d J Moore slide, Joey slide missed
Speaker 1: a long field goal. Ram score or go up three?
Speaker 1: Nothing questionable lateral? Was it a forward pass? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Rams get the ball back. Score now it's thirteen three.
Speaker 1: Rams lead a half. Finally cut into sixteen ten on
Speaker 1: a direct snap to Christian McCaffrey in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: but the Rams went to Sony five yards thirteen plays
Speaker 1: for a touchdown to go back up to the fourth block,
Speaker 1: but Germain Carter Christian McCaffrey lounges for the touchdown and
Speaker 1: then interception, but Cam Newton can't hit Curtis Samuel on
Speaker 1: third down. Rams get it back. Anthers cut into three,
Speaker 1: but it is too little, too late in the on
Speaker 1: site kick goes back to the Rams. Rams winn. That
Speaker 1: was better than I was expecting. I'm sorry that I
Speaker 1: set did remind me of Boom goes to Dynamite Boom
Speaker 1: goes to b uh Eddie throws it, throws it to
Speaker 1: the other guy. Guy gets touched to Boom, goes down
Speaker 1: all right, So that's oh and one for the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Take it away. Four days later, Thursday night football in
Speaker 1: the Queen City, the Buccaneers in town. I think we
Speaker 1: should do all the weekends. Fourth and one. Cam Newton
Speaker 1: steaked to the right, can't pick it up. Review, no
Speaker 1: good rain now, trade field goals, lots of punts right
Speaker 1: before the half, long throw to Mike Evans setting up
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin touchdown. Bucks go up at halftime. Fifty four
Speaker 1: yards Sly field goal right before the half cuts at
Speaker 1: the ten nine, but the Panthers still trailing. Panthers don't
Speaker 1: do well when they trail at half period. We know
Speaker 1: that the fourth Sly field goal gives Panthers a twelve
Speaker 1: ten lead, but a seventy five yards Tampa Bay touchdown
Speaker 1: drive gives the Bucks the ball and the lead back.
Speaker 1: A punt pins the Bucks deep and in their own territory.
Speaker 1: Luke Keikley slides in for the safety, cut it to three,
Speaker 1: but the Panthers can't hits Chris Curtis Samuel on third
Speaker 1: down yet again. I love how you're like looking at
Speaker 1: me as you're doing like turning like Panthers the ball
Speaker 1: back down six with just two minutes thirty seconds left.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton completes five passes to get into the red zone,
Speaker 1: down to the two yard line, fourth and one came,
Speaker 1: rolls to the right, moves to the right, stands there.
Speaker 1: Chris McCaffrey gets the ball all the way to the left,
Speaker 1: can't get it in. Panthers lose. It was bouch. I
Speaker 1: think I think I'm going to have to reconsider how
Speaker 1: I do all the point after podcast, I think it
Speaker 1: just needs to be reading. My favorite part of that
Speaker 1: was will you take me back to something something rain, rain,
Speaker 1: when the rain, When the rain came, the rain came.
Speaker 1: I love how you did the rain. The rain came,
Speaker 1: and rain four the one Panthers can't get it rain.
Speaker 1: I think he said, rain now, right now, right now,
Speaker 1: rain now? All right. Well, mine surely not going to
Speaker 1: be as good, but I get to start the winning streak.
Speaker 1: So like a night in shining Armor. Kyle Allen started
Speaker 1: his homecoming parade in Arizona, where he said backup quarterbacks
Speaker 1: around the world except for that opening drive fumble, but
Speaker 1: we forgot about that because then he went on to
Speaker 1: make all the plays that we had been waiting for.
Speaker 1: He finds christ go for a touchdown that a deep
Speaker 1: bought of DJ Moore, and then old people with greg
Speaker 1: Olsen and it was so nice. He wanted to do
Speaker 1: it twice, but really it should have been three times.
Speaker 1: When we forget about that too, because he put the
Speaker 1: cherry on top of the game with another greg Olsen
Speaker 1: passing touchdown in the Panthers leave Arizona with their first one.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of a lot of phrases there,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm really on the cool on him, like
Speaker 1: pop culture cherry, cherry on top, cherry on top, homecoming
Speaker 1: if it was just Beyonce. So then back up quarterback
Speaker 1: around the world with me here. Okay, so they're one
Speaker 1: and two. Then Allen and the Panthers to step their
Speaker 1: way over to Texas where the defendant an FC South champions.
Speaker 1: Uh they get They get an ice cold bottle of
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey and a shifty Cam Newton like Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: except for those fumbles again, but we don't You're we're
Speaker 1: not talking about those, because Allen evades the bull rush
Speaker 1: from j J was armor, let me come on, come
Speaker 1: on all right? And then you know what else? This
Speaker 1: team had a pass rush. The world met the Sack
Speaker 1: Street Boys, and their dominating reign of terror began. Through
Speaker 1: four weeks of football, the Panthers were tied for first
Speaker 1: with eighteen sacks. And that was just the beginning. We
Speaker 1: know that. So the team left Texas with the team
Speaker 1: back at five hundred. This guy that we thought was
Speaker 1: falling after that Tampa Bay game, it's being held up
Speaker 1: in the team. They're coming home. So where are We're
Speaker 1: two and two now until we're coming into menshew Mania
Speaker 1: Hall of Honor week. In Charlotte home game, home game,
Speaker 1: Panthers looking for that first home victory, and Chris McCaffrey
Speaker 1: got things started with the five yard touchdown run. But
Speaker 1: d J. Chark, who proved to be pretty much uncoverable
Speaker 1: throughout this game, was battling back for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: You knew early on it was just gonna be a
Speaker 1: hotly contested one. Two good teams going at it like
Speaker 1: Affrey and Chart back and forth with touchdowns and Brian
Speaker 1: Burns with Carolina's first defensive touchdown on the year, the
Speaker 1: scoop and score thanks Tomorio Addison, complete rump Andrew Norwell, Yes,
Speaker 1: the rumbling, someone mumbling, Um, I'm mumbling right now too.
Speaker 1: It's all an effect. It's an effect then, And how
Speaker 1: could you not mention this two five yards total on
Speaker 1: the ground for Carolina's offensive line, highlighted by Christians eighty
Speaker 1: four yard touchdown run and not to be outdone, Reggie Bonifant,
Speaker 1: coming in with Christian stuff from from some cramps gets
Speaker 1: a fifty nine yard touched now run of his own.
Speaker 1: But we would be remiss if we did not mention
Speaker 1: the halftime performance from the one and only Age and
Speaker 1: eighty nine Steve Smith, who incident Steth Carolina came out
Speaker 1: starts second half on fire. I think not That speech
Speaker 1: where he rips off the jacket the jersey underneath from
Speaker 1: his Super Bowl season wearing eighty nine was a moment
Speaker 1: that I believe Will Brian maybe had some tears in
Speaker 1: his eyes. Max did too. No Bill cried for Jake Delone.
Speaker 1: You cried for it for Will, I cried for everyone cried.
Speaker 1: Don't cry for me, Argentina. Everyone cried for Well, but
Speaker 1: you cried for Agent nine. Will cry for Ja Yes,
Speaker 1: so Panthers get their first home win in the year.
Speaker 1: Then it's back on the road, this time across the
Speaker 1: pond to London. London was calling and the Panthers answered.
Speaker 1: He knew right off the bat it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good day for Carolina. Jameis Winston drows an interception to
Speaker 1: James Bradberry on the first player of the game. This
Speaker 1: was the Jamis Panther fans wanted to see the one
Speaker 1: who doesn't protect the football and it was a long
Speaker 1: day for the Buccaneers. Seven turnovers, Carolina taking the ball
Speaker 1: away seven times in addition to how many sacks will
Speaker 1: seven sacks? Uh. It was a bit of mayhem all
Speaker 1: across the board for the Buccaneers, and the Panthers kind
Speaker 1: of had their had their way. This was not a
Speaker 1: game they needed to lean on. Christi mccaffreol did, though
Speaker 1: he did have that one spectacular stiff arms spin made
Speaker 1: Vernon Hargraves take a seat on the turf. But this
Speaker 1: was a day that had to Curtis, Samuel greg Olson,
Speaker 1: D J. Moore, all involved with the defense, of course,
Speaker 1: doing what they did to have Carolina head home with
Speaker 1: a well deserved victory, and here we are. It is
Speaker 1: now the forty Niners week. Kyle Allen still your starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Sack Street Boys, we don't even call like the Sack
Speaker 1: Street Boys are better than we thought they would be,
Speaker 1: So I don't even are we calling them the Sax
Speaker 1: Street Boys. Do you think they're better than like you
Speaker 1: think that wasn't that? I mean, do you think that
Speaker 1: they are who we thought they were? Did we let
Speaker 1: him off? The Danny Green coming into the show? Um,
Speaker 1: they're better. They're everywhere I think right. I mean this,
Speaker 1: they're on pace for an NFL record for sacks in
Speaker 1: a single season. I mean, this is a tough pace
Speaker 1: to keep up, but I love that they're so confident
Speaker 1: in it too, Like when asked about they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can get that, and you believe them. And without
Speaker 1: and without KK, which is still amazing to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did not see that this guy. I thought the
Speaker 1: KK Andrew is gonna be really tough on over Brendon
Speaker 1: Butler had one and a half sacks, was his career
Speaker 1: high an entire season. He had two strip sacks and
Speaker 1: two plays It fantastics, Like those are the moments that
Speaker 1: everyone whether it's been in like little league soccer or
Speaker 1: whatever you have dreamt about, like a redemption play like that,
Speaker 1: Like all right, I can't believe they call that on me,
Speaker 1: Like all right, I'm gonna get it this time, and
Speaker 1: you don't, but Vernon did. There's an incredible picture from
Speaker 1: the opposite end zone from one of our great photographers
Speaker 1: of the In the back the background is the Panthers
Speaker 1: like on the ball and it's just burning on its knees,
Speaker 1: just doing this. It's it's such a cool picture, such
Speaker 1: a cool moment. So here we are this forty Niners team.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys, I wasn't really paying
Speaker 1: attention to them at the beginning of the season, like
Speaker 1: I knew, like, okay, that's after the buy and I
Speaker 1: kind of split this season up until before the bye.
Speaker 1: It's like BC and you know, after death, that's how
Speaker 1: we are. So this was like pre buy, I didn't
Speaker 1: really think about him. But then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: here they are undefeated. They just had a slipping slide game,
Speaker 1: like their confidence is through the roof and the Panthers
Speaker 1: have to travel to San Francisco. This is a really
Speaker 1: big game. It's not it's one of those like out
Speaker 1: of division games that you really think as far as
Speaker 1: like like, this is a really big statement if Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen and that offense can go in there and and
Speaker 1: have a good day like that. Yeah, come on, this
Speaker 1: is I think the consensus best defense in the NFL. Um.
Speaker 1: They're giving up like just over ten points a game,
Speaker 1: which is ridiculous getting after the passer not quite as
Speaker 1: well as Carolina is. As you know, Carolina is just
Speaker 1: an absolute terror. But between Bosa and Armstead and d Ford,
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys are completely freaking have it. And
Speaker 1: in terms of their actual yards allowed, I mean that's
Speaker 1: part of the problem with a little bit with the
Speaker 1: Panthers right now. They're getting the sacks, but they're still
Speaker 1: giving up some pass yards. Niners defense has just been phenomenal. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you give the quarterback time back there, if he
Speaker 1: has time, that's where the players are being given up.
Speaker 1: But there's not a lot of time right So the
Speaker 1: Fortnight's defense has been rocks out. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to make of their offense yet. Garoppolo has not been great,
Speaker 1: but of course, if you're a quarterback when undefeated football team,
Speaker 1: you're doing something right. They clearly have enough. George Kittle
Speaker 1: is one of the better tight ends in the league.
Speaker 1: They've got a good offensive line and a running game
Speaker 1: that's been something that they can lean on. Bottom line
Speaker 1: is they're really good. I mean, anytime you're going to
Speaker 1: face an undefeated team, I think, okay, clearly they're they've
Speaker 1: got something figured out. As you mentioned, Caroline, they're confident bunch,
Speaker 1: which I think is only making them better. Right now,
Speaker 1: when you've got a team that sort of feels like
Speaker 1: they're gonna go out there and win every game, you
Speaker 1: kind of see that. This feels a lot to me
Speaker 1: like two thousand and thirteen and well, I know we
Speaker 1: were talking about this in the office before Carolina went
Speaker 1: out to San Francisco. Back when the Niners. This was
Speaker 1: like the Kaepernick, Uh Navarro bowman Patrick Willis days of hardball,
Speaker 1: where like the Niners were the class of the NFC
Speaker 1: and the Panthers went out there and no one was
Speaker 1: really quite sure if the Panthers were for real. They
Speaker 1: had had some good VIT wins, people were still kind
Speaker 1: of on the fence one way or the other, though
Speaker 1: they hadn't really gone and be somebody where it was
Speaker 1: like Okay, now we're taking them seriously. This sort of
Speaker 1: feels like the same opportunity for Carolina, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen keeps winning, but everyone's still kind of has
Speaker 1: in the back of their mind these doubts about like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, look at the level of competition. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen again this or that whatever. Everyone's gonna make excuses
Speaker 1: for Kyle's performance. Right now, this is a game you
Speaker 1: go out and you beat this Niners team, who, as
Speaker 1: we said, has this dominant defense. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else you can say other than that Kyle Allen and
Speaker 1: this Panthers team is for real. I think that this is,
Speaker 1: as you as you mentioned, a statement opportunity for this team.
Speaker 1: It absolutely is. And I think it's like one of
Speaker 1: those where they're not expected to win. No one is
Speaker 1: going to pick the Panthers and any pick them, you know,
Speaker 1: for this week. So if you can go out there
Speaker 1: and make a statement like this, and if you just
Speaker 1: look at the NFC in general, the way that it's
Speaker 1: shaking out a NFC South, the way that it's shaking
Speaker 1: out like this is a game that really puts the
Speaker 1: Saints on notice because what they've been able to do
Speaker 1: with no Drew Brees right now, has really you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, they are taking the NFC South right now
Speaker 1: the way that it's it's playing out. But you go
Speaker 1: out and beat the front runner in the NFC, Saints
Speaker 1: are gonna start paying attention way more than they are
Speaker 1: right now to the Panthers because they're in the same boat.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have two backup quarterbacks in the NFC
Speaker 1: South that are leading the NFC South, but you send
Speaker 1: one out to go beat the forty Niners who are
Speaker 1: on top of the entire NFC right now. Like if
Speaker 1: I was the Saints, I'd be like, huh yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: and you you have to keep pace. I mean you
Speaker 1: you you have a game at at San Francisco, at
Speaker 1: Green Bay. You still have to play at New Orleans
Speaker 1: at Indianapolis. You know who's pretty good right now. I
Speaker 1: mean that's and you're still a game behind New Orleans.
Speaker 1: They don't have Drew Brees and they've won five in
Speaker 1: a row. I mean, they are tearing teams up. I
Speaker 1: mean you've got to keep pace with them, and you've
Speaker 1: got to keep pace with these wild card teams in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Well, this is where you get excited for
Speaker 1: the fact that the Panthers have a defense then the
Speaker 1: way that they're playing right now, because you're right, San
Speaker 1: Francisco's offense hasn't been you know, hands down phenomenal, but
Speaker 1: their defense is holding teams to average team points like
Speaker 1: that's why they're winning. So you put that then where
Speaker 1: you know, have the Panthers defense keep having the games
Speaker 1: that they're having to keep them on pace. I think
Speaker 1: this offense is allowed to, you know, not be perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, I should have pointed out that two
Speaker 1: thirteen game ended with a ten nine Carolina victory. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if it's another low scoring affair in
Speaker 1: San Francisco this time around, and you've got two heavyweight
Speaker 1: style defenses going at it. As Caroline has got to
Speaker 1: clean up some of the big plays, as you mentioned
Speaker 1: in San Francisco has a little bit been a little
Speaker 1: more consistent across the board and really just clamping down
Speaker 1: on teams um. But I would fully anticipate this to
Speaker 1: be one of those defensive slugfests, and I think Caroline
Speaker 1: is built to handle that. Kyle Allen has not thrown
Speaker 1: an interception yet this season, and we kind of joked
Speaker 1: about the fumbles a little bit. Yeah, knocking, knocking on
Speaker 1: the table, but he's done a really good job protecting
Speaker 1: the football. I think this is gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those games where it's gonna be who protects a football better,
Speaker 1: who wins the field position battle, who's able to just
Speaker 1: get a couple scoring drives out of this? Because we
Speaker 1: know these defenses are gonna come to play, and these
Speaker 1: did These defenses make big plays. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: we've seen the last couple of from Carolina is not
Speaker 1: only are they they're stopping people, they're turning things into
Speaker 1: points which offense can avoid catastrophe. Because I think almost
Speaker 1: what this is going to come down to you, because
Speaker 1: these defenses are capable of creating that, no doubt. So
Speaker 1: let's go insider or what do you have? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: so while we're talking about San Francisco's offense, I looked
Speaker 1: this up. Their second in rushing in the NFL. They're
Speaker 1: one of two teams that have three running backs over
Speaker 1: two hundred yards. Can we name their three running backs? Well,
Speaker 1: obviously the first one is the one that most people
Speaker 1: probably still don't know, right, Breda, Right, who's just kind
Speaker 1: of this no name running back who has done great
Speaker 1: for them. I know there's a former Falcon who's in
Speaker 1: their back. The third one is the one that I
Speaker 1: would monstered. I couldn't given right, but I mean, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Matt Matt Brado went into the concussion protocol at Washington,
Speaker 1: so we'll be checking on I think he did. He
Speaker 1: did kind of come back out and say I think
Speaker 1: I like poton. I right, So it was it wasn't actually,
Speaker 1: so I expect to see him. And obviously with Panthers, no,
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman quite well, he's given them some trouble over
Speaker 1: the years with Atlanta. So yeah, this this run game
Speaker 1: right and there in seventy two yards a game. And
Speaker 1: if we're gonna take another look at Caroline's defense, one
Speaker 1: area that they haven't been at their best so far
Speaker 1: has been the run defense. Yep. They've been exposed at
Speaker 1: times throughout the year, giving up some chunk plays in
Speaker 1: the ground. So, uh, that has got to be showing
Speaker 1: up in a situation like this against the Niners team
Speaker 1: that is what you would describe as a physical football team,
Speaker 1: great defense, They want to run the football, so that's
Speaker 1: one thing to watch them, and that that's a great
Speaker 1: match up there to to keep an eye on. But
Speaker 1: let's go insider for a minute. What is one thing
Speaker 1: that you're looking forward to or that you're keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on this week as we are closer and closer
Speaker 1: to the game, whether it's a player, a matchup, or
Speaker 1: anything coming off the by yeah, I mean it's hard
Speaker 1: not to start with Christian because again Tampa Bay, I
Speaker 1: thought that like did a really good job against him
Speaker 1: in the run game. He had what one point four
Speaker 1: yards per carry in London? That makes I have that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: two carries thirty one yards and again, as I mentioned
Speaker 1: in our sixty second recap, he had that one incredible play.
Speaker 1: But the Buccaneers have kind of put out a bit
Speaker 1: of a blueprint for shutting down McCaffrey or limiting him. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I just wonder if the Niners are going to
Speaker 1: employ the similar tactic and if they'll be successful doing that.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, the Buccaneers defense is dead
Speaker 1: last in past defense, right, so they were given something
Speaker 1: up the Niners. If they can shut down McCaffrey, I
Speaker 1: wonder how Kyle can then handle that. If they're going
Speaker 1: to put it on Kyle Allen to beat them. Howell
Speaker 1: Kyle rise to that challenge on the road against the
Speaker 1: San Francisco team that, as we've said, has been pinning
Speaker 1: their ears back and getting after quarterbacks all seasons. Well,
Speaker 1: and and we said that after week two as well,
Speaker 1: that the Bucks shut McCaffrey down then, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh no, now the blueprints out there,
Speaker 1: and then the next four weeks, what did you do?
Speaker 1: You know? So I think certainly, you know, a good
Speaker 1: defense can use that blueprint, but they've got to execute.
Speaker 1: I mean, you still have to have players execute zone defense.
Speaker 1: When you do a zone run, they've got to fill
Speaker 1: their gaps like they've got to do the right thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious to see how Carolina handles coming off
Speaker 1: the by too, right. I mean, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like this is a pretty good time to get the
Speaker 1: Niners if they take advantage of this off week. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at San Francisco's last game, right, that mud Bowl
Speaker 1: they played in as Yeah, they're of course they're happy
Speaker 1: to come out of that with the victory, but that
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly a clean football performance and it was anything
Speaker 1: but right, No one knows literally, Yeah, So you're coming
Speaker 1: out of that game if you're the Niners, like kind
Speaker 1: of off rhythm because the offense for either team in
Speaker 1: that game they're playing in Washington, could not do anything.
Speaker 1: They essentially both teams were handing the ball off every
Speaker 1: other play more so than that after some batter interceptions
Speaker 1: with thrown. So it's like that. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Niners are sort of thrown off track a little bit
Speaker 1: just because of what that game was. Like, I like
Speaker 1: this Stine, right, so now you got you got arrested,
Speaker 1: you got arrested. Panthers team that's rolling with four wins
Speaker 1: in a row, they're used to traveling long distances, just
Speaker 1: the from this London road trip. Now it's another long
Speaker 1: road trip here against the Niners. We saw they had
Speaker 1: success with the two day trip out to Arizona earlier
Speaker 1: in the year. So if Carolina can get some guys back.
Speaker 1: We're looking at Trey Turner, looking at Greg Little, We're
Speaker 1: looking at Dante Jackson. What a nice boost would be
Speaker 1: to get some of these guys back in the lineup.
Speaker 1: It just seems like there's some positive momentum here for Caroline.
Speaker 1: I'm going into what we all will admit is the
Speaker 1: toughest game they've got so far, but it does seem
Speaker 1: like they're well positioned for it. And Ron Rivera's first
Speaker 1: four years as Caroline's coach, Carolina went oh and four
Speaker 1: after the bye week. Yeah, he did not like answer
Speaker 1: in those questions in the last four years their four
Speaker 1: Now after the bye week, it's turned. It's turned. Oh,
Speaker 1: how the turntables have to turn? Another thing that I'm
Speaker 1: watching this offensive line because, like you mentioned, you could
Speaker 1: get some guys back, but this offensive line has been working,
Speaker 1: and so I always get interested when it's not so
Speaker 1: much like the big names on the offensive line. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not the guys that you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: all the posters and you know, get everyone excited about
Speaker 1: coming to the game. It's just about the five guys
Speaker 1: that work best together. And I think the great thing
Speaker 1: about this offensive line is there's going to be depth
Speaker 1: when you get those guys back. But then who's your
Speaker 1: starting five. I think there's a real question mark around
Speaker 1: who is your starting five. Trade Turner he's the leader,
Speaker 1: you plug him back in, but then you have really
Speaker 1: three guys that can fight for that fifth position that
Speaker 1: have played, that have traded in and out and that
Speaker 1: it's worked. So I'm very curious to see, you know,
Speaker 1: once trade Turner is back and he's plugged back in there,
Speaker 1: how does the line shake out, because because it's it's
Speaker 1: something that you know, I always pull from. You always
Speaker 1: pull for your past, and my past is with Indie
Speaker 1: when they were trying to find their offensive line in
Speaker 1: twenty you know, seventeen. They finally found it in eighteen,
Speaker 1: but it was after the first five weeks of the
Speaker 1: season when it was the plug and play. They were
Speaker 1: trading people in and out, and they end up with
Speaker 1: a rookie left right tackle and and he was drafted
Speaker 1: as a guard and then you put him there, and
Speaker 1: it was just those were the five that worked best together.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that that was the plan, but because of injuries,
Speaker 1: that had to slide guys around, and then they were like,
Speaker 1: these five work. The rest of you that we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be starters, you're now backups because these guys work.
Speaker 1: So I'm so interested to see that once they started
Speaker 1: getting some of these healthy guys back and you're you're
Speaker 1: plugging them in, they've been really successful. The bar is
Speaker 1: set very high. I'm interested to see who ends up being,
Speaker 1: you know, in Week ten, who's the starting Yeah. And
Speaker 1: in my experience, the best offensive lines have been the
Speaker 1: ones that have adopted that approach where it's just been like,
Speaker 1: we need the five best guys out there, and whatever
Speaker 1: it's gonna take wherever it has to move around to
Speaker 1: make that possible, that's what we're gonna do. This is
Speaker 1: a great problem to have, but it is an interesting problem, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, with Trey Turner comes back into the lineup,
Speaker 1: where does Darryl Williams fit in? UM? You know, Greg
Speaker 1: Little was drafted to be the left tackle of the future.
Speaker 1: They like him at left tackle. Dennis Daley was Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus is highest graded offensive tackle in the league
Speaker 1: last time Carolina played UM. Dennis has position flexibility though
Speaker 1: he can play guard. UM. So, I don't know right
Speaker 1: now sitting here what they'll what they'll do, but this
Speaker 1: is the type of situation you want to be in
Speaker 1: if you're a team, right, you want to have this
Speaker 1: sort of depth to where it's like, man, somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: be the odd man out just because we have too
Speaker 1: many good options. And that has not been the case
Speaker 1: in Carolina for a while. The offensive line has been
Speaker 1: an area that they've tried to address depthwise for years
Speaker 1: and now they're in a position thanks to Marty Herney
Speaker 1: making some choices in the draft with Greg Little and
Speaker 1: Dennis Daily have proven that they can handle themselves. So yeah,
Speaker 1: when this offensive lines at full strength, unfortunately there's only
Speaker 1: room for five and we'll see how it's great about
Speaker 1: this team that they're not like the outliers of like,
Speaker 1: oh well, this isn't how you build a roster, but
Speaker 1: it seems to be working like you here every single
Speaker 1: year at the combine and at the draft. You have
Speaker 1: to you know, start in the trenches. Your lines have
Speaker 1: to be you know, the best. That's where you're gonna
Speaker 1: put your focus. That's what this team has done. The
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive lines are very very good. This is
Speaker 1: not a fluke that they've had this you know success
Speaker 1: in these last four games, are starting to figure it
Speaker 1: out because a lot of those you know, lines of
Speaker 1: working together is continuity. It took them a little bit
Speaker 1: to get into that, but these past four games and
Speaker 1: they've certainly shown what they are capable of. So it's
Speaker 1: a big, big week heading out to San Francisco. The
Speaker 1: team will leave on Friday Free Day on Saturday. Whoop, whoop?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Max? San fran is a
Speaker 1: fun city foodie. Yeah, there's gonna be some foodie spots
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit for sure. For me, it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a family reunion opportunity. My sister lives in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: my brother is not far he's in Tahoe now, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Henson siblings getting together for some
Speaker 1: fun out by the bay. So that'll be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That is a lot of fun. Well, guys, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you joining us on this week of the group Chat.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you all next week and hopefully
Speaker 1: we're talking about a big upset on the Bay area
Speaker 1: by guys. Wow.